Friday, December 13, 2013

Happy Friday Fussy and Fancy followers********Sheryl hereWe are all very excited about our newest Fussy and Fancy Girls!Please go HEREto read all about them!

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Warning!This is a picture heavy postfilled with exciting newsfor 2014********

Our final challenge for this yearwill last four weeks

and is hosted by ourvery talented

Wendy

Hi, my name's Wendy, but I'm otherwise know as Papersniffer, and yes, I really do love the smell of craft paper, especially the printed kind! I live in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland, where I spend every moment I can surrounded by paper, glue and pretty embellishments. I've recently started my own business, www.daisydreams.org.uk , selling my handmade cards and gifts, and I'm learning wet felting so I can make and sell felted products as well a paper ones.
I've crafted in one form or another since I was tiny, but in recent years paper has pretty much taken over my world (and my house!). If I'm not crafting, you'll usually find me in the kitchen, cooking or baking, or chatting with friends over a pot of tea.

The challenge Wendy has chosen is:

Wendy would like to see you create chocolate packages or projects with lots of the color chocolate

Here is Wendy's adorable chocolate package!

Wendy

Wendy will be choosing theTop 5 Winners for this challenge********Now for our exciting news!Drum Roll Please!

We now have Sponsors!That's right!Fussy and FancyFriday Challengeswill now have some wonderful prizesprovided by our new sponsors!

This is how our future challenges will workFor each challenge random.orgwill choose a future featured guest designerand a separate sponsored prize winnerThat will be two separate winners!We will also continue to have our Top 5 winnerschosen by one of our talentedFussy and Fancy girlswho is hosting the challenge

We hope that all of you will havefun joining our challenges and hopefully become a winner!

********Our first sponsor isFresh Brewed DesignsHeather, the super sweet and very talented owner, is offering3 digi stampsof your choice from her storeand this yummy candy!

Hello, I'm Judy. For many years I made cross stitched cards and small projects (one nighters) until late 2007, when I gingerly transferred to card making. It was some time before stamping took hold but once it did WOW there was no stopping me. I just love it! I had silently followed the blogs avidly but only plucked up the courage to form my own blog in February 2011! It was so scary hitting "publish" for the first time but now I wonder why I did not do this before. I feel I have come such a long way, am now on several Design Teams, and also am enjoying doing commissions for Papercraft Essentials magazine, the first of which was Published in February 2013. It is a great hobby, and one that is definitely a pleasure to share. Do feel free to drop by my blog at http://inkypinkydelights.blogspot.co.uk/

Hi all, I am kavitha from India. Arts and crafts always fascinated me right from my childhood. It was only after finishing my degree that I got a chance to take some formal training.

I have done a few designing courses like fashion designing and fine arts. Then I started my own art classes and store. I am a full time crafter and I'm completely loving this journey! After I was introduced to this wonderful blogging community , I started with card making and paper crafts ,and I am hooked since to say the least. Now paper crafting occupies most of my time. I am happy to be a part of this wonderful crafting and blogging community, where I meet amazing talented people from all over the world. I thank sheryl for giving me a part in this wonderful design team.Love,kavitha

I live in the country in a town called Oconto Falls which is about 1 hour north of Green Bay, Wisconsin....Yes the home of the NFL Green Bay Packers!! I am happily married for 34 years and we have 3 wonderful kids. With the fun loving additions of 3 grandkids and 1 granddog!! So on my blog you will definitely see Proud Gramma pics :)

I started blogging in August 2009 after my daughter had shared her love of crafting and designing with me. I grew up loving sewing, cross stitching, macrameing, and now I am into Copic coloring and papercrafting :))

Some of you may have already been on my Blog and are my followers but I love new visitors because that is my way to find you in cyberland :)) It amazes me to be talking to peeps around the world!!!

I am super excited and feel very blessed to be part of The Fussy and Fancy Friday DT!!!

I'm Vannessa, and live in Peterborough in the UK. I'm a full time primary school teacher during the week and avid crafter at the weekends (although Sunday evening is usually reserved for school work too!). I love my job teaching year 4 children (8-9 year olds); they are just some of the funniest people you will ever meet. I live with my partner of 16 years and our very dominant cat Tallulah, who hates me crafting as she's not allowed to eat or sit on anything I'm using. She does love trying to play with my ribbons and paper flowers though, so I usually have to give in to her by giving her little bits to play with, so she'll leave me alone!

I have always been crafty doing one thing or another, having been taught how to knit, crochet, patchwork, cross-stitch and make latch hook rugs as a child. I first started card making about 6 years ago after I bought a very cheap card making kit on eBay for something to do during the summer holidays. Although this kit was full of not so nice papers and Sizzix die cuts, it was probably the best £5 I have ever spent. It kickstarted my card making addiction and that £5 soon increased to me spending a LOT more money on my habit (oops hobby!).

I fell in love with Copics a few years ago after taking a class at my local craft store and now can't get enough of colouring in all those gorgeous images that are out nowadays. You won't find many of my cards without a bit of ribbon (I probably have enough of it to start a market stall). My style tends to be lots of layers with lots of embellishments and if left to my own devices most of my cards would be pink! The only thing I don't have in my stash is an electronic die-cutting machine, but hopefully Santa is going to bring me one of those this year (I've been asking for the last 3 years but I obviously wasn't a good enough girl before!)

Hello, I'm Yvonne. I've recently moved with my husband from Warwickshire to the Somerset countryside and I'm really enjoying it. An added bonus is that it's not far from the seaside!

I've been crafting since a young girl (many years ago!) starting with dressmaking and knitting, moving on to cross stitch and tapestry and for the last few years paper crafting. I semi retired a couple of years ago which enabled me to spend lots more time on my hobby. I've made so many really lovely friends through paper-crafting, enjoying time with them at workshops and exhibitions, followed by being lucky enough to join a couple of Design Teams. Add social media into the mix and a whole knew world has opened up for myself and my crafty friends.I'm so lucky now to be joining the Team at Fussy and Fancy and I'm looking forward to getting involved with the variety of different themes and seeing everyone's gorgeous entries into the Challenges.

New challenges will be posted on alternate Fridays and whether your style is "fussy and fancy" or "clean and simple" all styles of cards/paper crafts are welcome.

We would appreciate it if you could please limit the amount of different challenges you enter along with ours to ten. You can enter as many as three different cards or projects per challenge, but please only enter NEW creations; do not backlink to previous posts.

Post your entry on your blog with a link to our challenge before midnight (GMT) on the Thursday prior to the new challenge and use Mr Linky to link to your projects post - NOT just your blog.

The Fussy and Fancy Guest Designer Spot and Top 5 will be chosen by the Design Team member hosting the challenge and will be announced on the Friday following the start of the new challenge.

Happy crafting and have fun!

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